Fake hangovers can sometimes be as bad as real ones

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Poor Steve

While Peter’s real hangover wasn’t going well, Steve’s fake hangover wasn’t faring much better, as Michelle dragged him by his ear across the cobbles to start a long Rovers shift and bear the brunt of her wrath, even
when he made her a particularly cheesy pepperoni pizza and delivered it in an Italian accent.

Steve was also dealing with the fact that he now knows that his girlfriend’s best mate is being cheated on, which is a tricky position to be in, but mainly he was outraged that people think he threw up in a plant pot and that he might have to pay Tina some maternity pay.

Tina’s reasons for getting pregnant are always very questionable

Luckily for Steve/ Peter/ Tina’s health when Carla found out, Tina is not pregnant, despite the fact that she wanted to be so that Peter wouldn’t leave her. What with that, and her previous ‘to make some cash’, Tina’s reasons for getting pregnant are just always a tiny bit less than ideal.

“Couldn’t you just try
and look disappointed?” said Tina, brandishing her negative pregnancy test as Peter glanced nervously at the door for the first sighting of one of Carla’s stilettos.

“Well we didn’t talk about having a baby, did we, we didn’t plan it…” said Peter, which was about as big an understatement as it gets since mainly Peter and Tina’s conversations consisted of texts that said ‘meet me in the ginnel’. Adding ‘PS Fancy having a baby?’ and a smiley face would would have seemed wildly
inappropriate.

When Carla works out something is going on, I would not be surprised if she concludes that Peter’s having an affair with Steve

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Peter’s back at the bottle

So Peter dumped Tina and Tina went home to sob angrily into her cardy sleeve and tell Steph that she’s going to get her revenge, while Peter headed off to the ginnel for a secret liaison.

This time though it wasn’t with Tina, but with the new secret person in his life, Steve McDonald, who he has kindly offered to cover for, if Steve ever gets himself into any ‘misdeadmeanors or romantic tangles”.

Peter’s now over his boozy night
/ affair and as Carla absorbed the news that babies need feeding during the night time, Peter told her not to worry. “I feel really positive about the future,” he said.

Special Mention Goes To…

Steve McDonald being funny in the face of extreme messiness: “Look, what happened doesn’t make us gay,” he whispered to a naked Peter as they woke up in bed together and an alarmed Peter admitted he didn’t remember why they were there.